Professor Anna Chahoud

CHAIR OF LATIN (1870) (Classics)

ARTS BUILDING

I studied Classics in Bologna (Laurea in Lettere Classiche, 1991) and Pisa (Dottorato di Ricerca in Filologia greco-latina, 1996), and worked in England (Reading, 1997-8, and Durham, 1998-1999) before coming to Ireland in 1999. My research concentrates on early Latin and the transmission of Latin texts from antiquity to the early modern period. I have long been engaged in the study of fragmentary Republican satire, working on a new edition of, and the first English-language commentary, on the fragments of Lucilius. I am the author of a systematic study of Lucilius, of articles on Republican Latin and the grammatical tradition, and co-editor (with E. Dickey) of Colloquial and Literary Latin (Cambridge University Press 2010). I contributed to the New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and am consulting editor for the Bryn Mawr Classical Review. I am a Fellow of Trinity College (FTCD[2007]) and College Public Orator.

Critical edition with commentary of the fragments of the 2nd century BC satirist C. Lucilius (Cambridge University Press)

Project Type

Edition with commentary

Project Title

Latin Texts in Ireland

From

2009

To

2010

Summary

I have initiated a collaborative project with European partners on the study and possible digitization of select Medieval and Renaissance Latin manuscripts in Trinity College, for which I obtained a small but very valuable grant from the LRH; the project is intended to encourage international research on TCD resources and as a first step towards establishing a Trinity-based centre for the study of Latin transmission and textual criticism, in conjunction with the MPhil in Classics programme.

Funding Agency

Long Room Hub (PRTLI4)

Programme

Long Room Hub New Initiative

Project Type

Trinity Treasures, Exploratory Workshop (24/09/10)

Project Title

Latin Identities: Post-Reformation Sources in Europe

From

16/09/2010

To

18/09/2010

Summary

The workshop was intended as a scoping exercise, with a view to setting up a European network for the study of Greco-Roman influences in early modern Latin texts of the counter-Reformation, with an emphasis on non-canonical genres (e.g. praise poetry, satire) and minority areas of reception of classical culture (e.g. Scottish Puritan Latin). Such texts (a) provide a corrective to the picture of the role of classical influences in the formation of European literature, (b) supply a primary-source context for cultural, political and religious debates in early modern Europe; and (c) afford opportunities for research on largely unpublished material.

Funding Agency

European Science Foundation

Programme

Exploratory Workshop

Project Type

LIPSE Exploratory Workshop September 2010

Project Title

Augustus Bimillennium at Trinity College Dublin

From

May 2013

To

June 2014

Summary

Series of grouped under the title 'The Augustan Space' aim to explore the impact of the cultural programme of the Emperor Augustus (d. AD 14) on the formation of European identities. Questions addressed include tradition and transformation; nationalism and inclusiveness; monumentalisation of history and destabilising power of literature. Events include an international conference; poetry and music recital; exhibition of artwork based on digitised items from College collections (manuscript, maps and coins).

My research focuses on two main areas - Early Latin language and literature and the transmission of Latin texts from antiquity to the early modern period. I am especially interested in the interaction between literary and spoken language in the process of formation of genre-specific poetic diction in Roman Republican literature. My primary interest is in early Roman satire; my commentary on the fragments of Lucilius (in progress) investigates the relationships between hexametrical poetry and the comic register on the one hand and stylized prose on the other. I am also working on an edition of fragments of Republican Latin satire, political invective and popular verse for Harvard University Press, which explores the relationship between the literary genre and colloquial, sub-literary and non-literary Latin. My concern with the survival of fragmentary texts through the grammatical and scholarly tradition of Classical and Late Antiquity has led to a wider study of ancient Latin linguistics in its own right.